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This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage holistic education in their classrooms. It is a rich and diverse collection showing how holistic education can be brought into public education despite the pressures of testing and other accountability measures.

This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage holistic education in their classrooms. It is a rich and diverse collection showing how holistic education can be brought into public education despite the pressures of testing and other accountability measures.

Focuses on issues in typical and disordered developments in auditory processing, literacy, and language across different cultural and linguistic contexts in Asia, Europe and North America. The contributors of this volume offer insightful theoretical and practical ideas to shape future directions in research, assessment, intervention, and education.

The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematics and how to use these insights to improve instruction and student learning. This book explains what trajectories are, the research and methodology that are necessary for developing them, and provides insight into their potential applications.

The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematics and how to use these insights to improve instruction and student learning. This book explains what trajectories are, the research and methodology that are necessary for developing them, and provides insight into their potential applications.

The Optimizing Talent Workbook will guide you through a handson, practical application of what you learned from Optimizing Talent: What Every Leader Needs to Know to Sustain the Ultimate Workforce. Not only will you learn to apply the Optimizing Talent Framework in your organization, you'll find that we've expanded on the foundation of Optimizing Talent to include the incredibly valuable topics of talent branding and neuroscience, as well as case studies of companies that have used the framework to great success. The Optimizing Talent Workbook provides a stepbystep strategic implementation approach for developing and retaining the best talent whatever your business!

Offers research-supported school practices to empower families from diverse cultural backgrounds to make informed decisions regarding their children with diverse disabilities. uggested practices include activities for parent organizing, parent education, ways to provide co-mentoring of families, and formal support at Individualized Education Programme meetings.

Offers research-supported school practices to empower families from diverse cultural backgrounds to make informed decisions regarding their children with diverse disabilities. uggested practices include activities for parent organizing, parent education, ways to provide co-mentoring of families, and formal support at Individualized Education Programme meetings.

Clinical simulations provide school leaders with opportunities to enact and examine their leadership approaches, decisions, and policies, without consequence. Building on medical education's use of standardized patients, this book introduces standardized individuals and clinical simulations into the field of school leader preparation.

This study of workplace violence, terrorism, and other forms of dysfunctional behavior associated with work suggests that both managers and non-managers would like to reduce the risks associated with violence at the workplace. The book is designed to help do just that. It offers both general and specific information and advice from a managerial point of view.

Corporate reform is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institution of public education. The primary motivation behind this destruction is greed. This book investigates and exposes the handful of people and institutions that are often working together to become the driving force behind destroying the community public school.

With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts. An emphasis is placed on practical application of research and best practice related to the State Education Agency's (SEA's) critical leadership role in driving and supporting successful school turnaround efforts.The Edited Volume is organized around the Center on School Turnaround's four objectives, with sections devoted to each:1. Create a Pro-Turnaround Statutory and Regulatory Environment2. Administer and Manage Turnaround Efforts Effectively3. Provide Targeted and Timely Technical Assistance to Local Educational Agencies and Schools4. Advocate and Lead to Build Support for Local Turnaround EffortsChapters include: a) brief literature review, b) examples from SEAs (and/or concrete examples of proposed SEA practices), and c) action principles for the SEA.

With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts. An emphasis is placed on practical application of research and best practice related to the State Education Agency's (SEA's) critical leadership role in driving and supporting successful school turnaround efforts.The Edited Volume is organized around the Center on School Turnaround's four objectives, with sections devoted to each:1. Create a Pro-Turnaround Statutory and Regulatory Environment2. Administer and Manage Turnaround Efforts Effectively3. Provide Targeted and Timely Technical Assistance to Local Educational Agencies and Schools4. Advocate and Lead to Build Support for Local Turnaround EffortsChapters include: a) brief literature review, b) examples from SEAs (and/or concrete examples of proposed SEA practices), and c) action principles for the SEA.